Trygve Ramberg

{{Short description|Norwegian newspaper editor}}

Trygve Ramberg (1 March 1932 – 31 May 2002) was a Norwegian newspaper editor.

He was born in Lillehammer as a son of Birger Ramberg and Mathilde Fredriksen,{{cite encyclopedia|year=1973|title=Ramberg, Trygve|encyclopedia=Hvem er hvem?|editor=Steenstrup, Bjørn|publisher=Aschehoug|location=Oslo|url=https://runeberg.org/hvemerhvem/1973/0451.html|page=451|language=Norwegian|access-date=11 April 2014}} and a brother of Knut Ramberg.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Trygve Ramberg|encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon|editor=|publisher=|location=|url=http://snl.no/Trygve_Ramberg|language=Norwegian|accessdate=31 March 2014}}

He finished his secondary education in 1950, and was hired as a journalistic apprentice in Gudbrandsdølen and Lillehammer Tilskuer in the same year. After studies in California he was hired in Aftenposten in 1955. After a short period as PR director of Esso-Raffineriet Norge from 1958 he returned to Aftenposten in 1960. Here he was promoted to news editor in 1970 and editor-in-chief in 1978. He left in 1986 to work nine years as the chief executive officer of Universitetsforlaget. According to his successor Terje Osmundsen, the publishing house had accumulated a {{NOK|20 million|link=yes}} deficit.{{cite news|title=Millionunderskudd for Universitetsforlaget|date=5 February 1998|agency=Norwegian News Agency|language=Norwegian}}

Ramberg also chaired the Norwegian Students' Society in 1958, the Norwegian Press Association from 1971 to 1975 and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1990 to 1998.{{cite news|title=Tidligere sjefredaktør Trygve Ramberg er død|work=Aftenposten|date=8 June 2002|author=Hanseid, Einar|author-link=Einar Hanseid|author2=Ugdaard, Nils Morten |page=19|language=Norwegian}} In the Norwegian Publishers' Association he became a board member in 1987, vice chair in 1989 and chair from 1993 to 1996 before he left the board in 1998.{{cite news|title=Trygve Ramberg|work=Aftenposten|date=12 June 2002|author=Smith-Simonsen, Bjørn |author2=Nygaard, William |author2-link=William Nygaard |author3=Røthe, Paul Martens |language=Norwegian}} He was also a board member of the Norwegian Union of Journalists from 1964 to 1966, the Association of Norwegian Editors, the International Press Institute and the National Gallery of Norway. He was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1997.{{cite news|title=Trygve Ramberg Ridder av St. Olavs Orden|date=20 August 1997|agency=Norwegian News Agency|language=Norwegian}}

He died in 2002. He was married to Mona Lyche Ramberg, an accomplished translator and daughter of Karl and Ingeborg Lyche, who died in 2005. The couple had two sons.{{cite news|title=Mona Lyche Ramberg|work=Aftenposten|date=23 February 2005|author=Carlsen, Jorunn|language=Norwegian}} They resided in Bærum.